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Side by Side with "the admirable Nonesuch Orchestra"
Students from local schools join us for a concert of new and newly resurrected music
Part of the Nonesuch Orchestra 2023-24 Season
Add to my Calendar 10-03-2024 17:00 10-03-2024 19:00 36 Side by Side with "the admirable Nonesuch Orchestra" “Admirable” and “very high quality” is how Dame Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music, describes the groundbreaking Nonesuch Orchestra. As well as thrilling public concerts, this enterprising group holds workshops in schools around London, giving many children their first-ever experience of live orchestral music, up close. Its pioneering work with local schools takes another stride forward on Sunday 10th March at 5pm at St Peter’s Church, Southfield Road, W4. At an exciting concert of new and newly resurrected music, the Orchestra is teaming up with students from the Twyford CofE Academies Trust schools to perform Imogen Holst’s “Variations on ‘Loth to Depart’” – a piece for two orchestras and string quartet premièred in 1962 and last performed in 1967. She wrote the parts for the second orchestra for less-experienced players, so it is a perfect project for young musicians. The Orchestra will also play the “Brook Green Suite” by Imogen’s father Gustav Holst, the London première of Andrew Toovey’s new work “Perception”, and the hauntingly beautiful “Entr’acte” by ris-ing star Caroline Shaw – the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Tea, coffee and cake will be served at St Peter’s Church from 4.30pm. St Peter's Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Peter's Church
Southfield Road
Acton Green, Chiswick
London
W4 1BB
England
Programme
Gustav Holst – Brook Green Suite, H.190
Caroline Shaw – Entr'acte
Andrew Toovey – Perception
Imogen Holst – Variations on 'Loth to Depart'
Performers
Dan Shilladay – Conductor
Stephanie Waite – Leader
Nonesuch Orchestra
Programme Note
“Admirable” and “very high quality” is how Dame Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music, describes the groundbreaking Nonesuch Orchestra. As well as thrilling public concerts, this enterprising group holds workshops in schools around London, giving many children their first-ever experience of live orchestral music, up close. Its pioneering work with local schools takes another stride forward on Sunday 10th March at 5pm at St Peter’s Church, Southfield Road, W4.
At an exciting concert of new and newly resurrected music, the Orchestra is teaming up with students from the Twyford CofE Academies Trust schools to perform Imogen Holst’s “Variations on ‘Loth to Depart’” – a piece for two orchestras and string quartet premièred in 1962 and last performed in 1967. She wrote the parts for the second orchestra for less-experienced players, so it is a perfect project for young musicians.
The Orchestra will also play the “Brook Green Suite” by Imogen’s father Gustav Holst, the London première of Andrew Toovey’s new work “Perception”, and the hauntingly beautiful “Entr’acte” by ris-ing star Caroline Shaw – the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Tea, coffee and cake will be served at St Peter’s Church from 4.30pm.
